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Man-Shaped Candle
Volume 1, entries 2805. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → SHRINES: ALTARS - CANDLES - SAINTS; NEW ORLEANS AREA → (2) CANDLES. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 2805
I have seed de candle - it was made de shape of a man. And he [friend of informant] was running with de same woman he [second man] had, and he [friend] burnt de candle to run him away. Well, ah believe that was true because he left and he ain't come back there yet. That was in Cary, Miss. Well, he [victim] was a young man. And this other [friend] man, he come down here somewhere in Vicksburg and got it, and he lit it and they say he would burn it every - think it was every twenty minutes or thirty minutes he would burn it. Every now and then he would put it out - it would burn gradually. And at last when it burned down to the feets of it - it was made the shape of a man - well, this boy left town. Well, he left - he never been back there no more. And ah seed de candle cause his wife - his old lady showed it to me.
(What sort of color was it?)
Hit was a kind of different colors - it was pink and red colors. The head of it was pink and it had a black hat on it with - you know, painted with black. And the part down here was red like and it was.
(You mean the lower part?)
The lower part - down at the feets part was red. And they said when it would burn down to that, he would leave then.
(Where did he get that candle?)
Well, he supposed to have got it from a hoodoo, so she [friend's wife] told me.